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On bringing up stepchildren ByL. M. BOYD Odd, is it not, that there’s no mention of stepchildren in Dr. Benjamin Spock’s books about child care? One out of every three marriages in this country is a remarriage. And in a third of these remarriages, both the husbands and the wives have children from previous marriages. Claim is about 25 million husbands and wives are step fathers and stepmothers. Within the next three years, it’s said, one out of every four youngsters nationwide will be a stepchild. Somebody with sufficient savvy might do pretty well with a “How to” book on this matter. All roads lead to Rome. Or such has been the claim anyway for a couple of thousand years. As for road signs, however, Rome didn’t have any, not a one, until 174 years ago. The average women 75 years from now, it’s believed, will be three inches taller than the average women of today. METRIC FOOTBALL Q. “When we convert to metric measures, will the football fields be changed?” A. That’s likely, eventually. One metric football game has already been played, in fact. On September 17 this year at Northfield, Minn. Between crosstown rivals St. Olaf College and Carleton College. The field was 100 meters long and 50 meters wide, 9.36 yards longer and 4.68 yards wider than normal. All the seats were metric. St. Olaf beat Carleton 43-0 in that one, the country’s first metric football game, called the Liter Bowl. Q. "What’s a ‘snowball sentence’?” A. A sentence that starts with a one-letter word, then adds one more letter to each successive word. It’s also called a rhopalism. Example: “I do not know where family doctors acquired illegibly perplexing handwriting; nevertheless, extraordinary pharmaceutical in tellectuality, counterbalancing indecipherability, tran scendentalizes intercommunications, incom prehensibleness. ’’ OLD SONGS It’s widely known there once was a popular song entitled “Who Threw the Overalls in Mistress Murphy’s Chowder?" Less well remembered, though, are these other ditties of yesteryear: ‘ ‘Someone Spiked the Punch at Lena’s Wedding,” “When Banana Skins Are Falling, I’ll Come Sliding Back To You” and “They’re Moving Father’s Grave to Build A Sewer.” A horseman of considerable experience claims a gray horse tends to be more cautions than a horse of a different color. It’s almost invariably the gray, he avers, which warns the heard when a stranger approaches. Interesting, if true. L. M. Boyd, Box 681, Weatherford, TX 76086 Copyright 1977 Crown Syndicate, Inc. to I 11 I /Rw 111 ©i976bv*A tnc I M Reg U S Pai Oh 6"*4 “In fact, I’ll bet even your Gl shoelaces won’t fit!" GRIFFIN Quimby Melton, Jr., Editor and Publisher Cary Reeves General Manager |4 Mil (S.tar»l«» t>"r al M*m ta» nni» r.a »>« a »2m “«*• *n» «moim hm n» ImtMil Erw ■ iiclWMli k Sr ,mMc*u> *1 II a tai mi mt Berry’s World © 1977MEA Inc “. . . AND NOW PRESENTING THE CHEERLEADERS FOR TONIGHT’S GAME . . Bill Knight Executive Editor MWU IM). EicM SaiM). Im. 1. M) 4, nuatafiMM 4 Chnstmn, at 323 East Mmmm Stmt, Gnffia, 6a. 30223, ly News Car>a»atm. SacaM Ciass Pastafi PaM at Griffia, Gt, Siatte Ca»y II Caats. ii Today By The Associated Press Today is Tuesday, Nov. 15, the 319th day of 1977. There are 46 days left in the year. Today’s highlight in history: On this date in 1777, the Arti cles of Confederation were ap proved by the American Conti nental Congress. The document was the law of the land until the Constitution went into effect. On this date: In 1492, Christopher Colum bus noted in his journal the use of tobacco among the Indians. It was the first recorded reference to tobacco. In 1805, the and Clark expedition reached the mouth of the Columbia River on the Pacific coast after a long trek across the West. In 1806, Pike’s Peak in Colo rado was discovered by the ex plorer, Zebulon Pike. In 1889, the Republic of Brazil was founded. In 1935, Manuel Quezon was inaugurated as the first presi dent of the Philippine Com monwealth. In 1969, a quarter of a million protestors against the Vietnam War staged a peaceful demon stration in Washington. Ten years ago: The United States agreed to begin talks with Japan to arrange for the early return of some of the Pa cific islands captured by Amer ican forces in World War 11. Five years ago: Cuba and the United States expressed a de sire to negotiate an agreement to curb the hijacking of air liners. One year ago: The Syrian army took full control of Beirut, in effect ending the 19-month civil war in Lebanon. Q&A 1. Joe DiMaggio’s career home runs totaled.... 2. The first ship to cross the North Pole beneath the Arc tic ice was (a) Thresher (b) Seadragon (c) Nautilus 3. Lima is all of the following except: (a) species of bean (b) comet appearing every 12 years (c) South American capital city ANSWERS. (q) £ (a) Z 19£ I Thoughts For the day of the Lord is near upon all the nations. As you have done, it shall be done to you, your deeds shall return on your own head. — Obadiah 1:15. Subscriptions Delivered by carrier or by mail in the counties of Spalding, Butts, Fayette, Henry, Lamar and Pike, and to military personnel and students from Griffin: 62 cents per week, $2.68 per month, $8.04 for three months, $16.07 for six months, $32.13 for 12 months. These prices include sales tax. Due to expense and un certainty of delivery, mail subscriptions are not recom mended but will be accepted outside the above area at $17.50 for three months, S3O for six months, and SSO for 12 months. If inside Georgia, sales tax must be added to these prices. All mail subscriptions must be paid at least three months in advance. -Griffin Daily News Tuesday, November 15, 1977 Page 4 Viewpoint The Griffin Daily News’ policy is to be fair to everyone. The editor’s opinions are confined to this page, and its columns are Time to cool it, Griffin Let’s cool it awhile in Griffin. Recently we have fought over the library. We have fought over the hospital. And we have fought over school bonds. All of these fights and others have divided the community, strained the ef fectiveness of duly elected and appointed officials, decreased the efficiency of public facilities. While a certain amount of friction, discord and strife are to be expected in any community, they can become habit for ming. And it has begun to appear that some segments of Griffin already are addicted to them. This may be exciting to some individuals, but it is not good for the People and pets The saga of the role pet animals play in the lives of people apparently began with the origin of man and will continue until man himself ceases to exist. Two stories which made the headlines in these pages recently illustrate the significance of this human-pet relation ship. One lady in our area discovered eight newly bom puppies near her home which had been left to the mercy of the elements. She was appalled to think that anyone could be so heartless as to commit such an Later by the second For years the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has featured a “doomsday clock.” This is a printed representation of a clock measuring how close, in the scientists’ opinion, mankind is to the nuclear holocaust. (The hands have usually hovered around five minutes to midnight.) Now people who worry about the world’s growing population have their own doomsday clock, although the Environ mental Fund, which just unveiled it out- Scrapping red tape Labor Secretary Ray Marshall has taken a step toward undoing some of the damage done by cumbersome government regulation of private pension plans. He is easing the red tape so companies don’t have to file so many forms or send so many time-consuming reports to Washington under the law passed by Congress three years ago. Basically, the reform was a good idea. It protected the pension beneifits of 30 Not paying debts DEAR DR. GRAHAM: There is a man who is very active in our church, and who is now being nominated for a church office. However, he is getting a bad reputation for not paying his debts. Do you think someone should say something to the pastor?-F. P. DEAR F. P.: If anyone should be ab solutely honest about money matters it should be the Christian. The Bible gives no grounds whatever for any Christian’s being dishonest or shady in business dealings. A Christian who says he will pay back money by a certain date and then fails to do so is guilty of lying. I realize, of BiUy Graham Fairness to all My Answer open to every subscriber. Letters to the editor are published every Wednesday. Address letters to'P.O. Box M, 30224. town. We have tried it all. Now how about trying these: Cooperation. Consideration. Respect of the rights of others. Recognition that the other side of an issue has its positive points. Thanksgiving is on the way. We have so much for which to be thankful. Christmas will follow soon, and a week after that a new year all fresh and clean and ready for the turning of another page for the com munity as well as for individuals. So we suggest that the time is at hand to cool it. Let’s all back off a step and look things over. Maybe then we will see that all is neither plus nor minus, that a proper balance between the two is best for all. act and though she already had two dogs of her own, took the orphans in to care for them. Theotherstorywasof an elderly lady of the Griffin area who reported that her dog was missing. She said she lived alone and her pet was the only true companion she had. Obviously the dog served its mistress in a very important capacity. People who are less attached to them can place an animal in the care of someone who will cherish it and benefit by its existence. side its headquarters in Washington, D. C., doesn’t call it that. Ji'rivo . »wol r brutia S Appropriately for these fast-changing times, however, the 10-foot by 3-foot clock is a digital counter, whose flashing flourescent figures tell us that there is a net addition of three new human beings in the world every second. Like the atomic scientists’ clock, the Environmental Fund Clock doesn’t tell time. It just tells how late it is. million workers. But the Labor Depart ment imposed so much paperwork on private pension plans that even large corporations have been asking for relief. Some smaller companies simply are phasing out their plans rather than pay the added costs. It is good to know that Secretary Mar shall can recognize a bureaucratic maze and that he is trying to do something about it. course, that unusual circumstances may prevent a person from meeting an obbgation, but I gather that the man you mention is in the habit of not paying his bills when he should. The Bible says that a church leader “must be blameless; he must not be. . .greedy for gain” (Titus 1:7, Revised Standard Version). When deacons (who had responsibility for handling financial matters in the church) were appointed, they were “men of good repute, full of the Spirit and of wisdom” (Acts 6:3, RSV). In other words, they had to have the spiritual and practical qualifications for the job, but they also had to be individuals whose reputations were respected even by un believers. Otherwise, the witness of the church would be harmed. Yes, I think it would be good for you and some others to seek the advice of your pastor on this matter. It may be that the man is not aware of the harm he could do to the cause of Christ if he continues to have a bad reputation concerning his debts. The pastor may be able to counsel him. Toccoa hospital was ready BY JAMES STEWART News Executive Tragedy struck the community at Toccoa Falls in Northeast Georgia slightly more than a week ago when the dam of the Kelly Barnes Lake broke. Many were killed and others were left homeless as a wall of water rushed through Toccoa Falls Bible College and the Toccoa Falls community. A disaster plan went into effect immediately when word of the tragedy reached the hospital in Toccoa. Everyone at the hospital knew what to do because they had been trained to handle disasters in case there should ever be one. They did not know when they were training for such disasters that one would ever occur in their community or that they would be involved in one in a nearby community. The Griffin-Spalding County Hospital has a disaster plan and if such a disaster should ever occur in the Griffin- Spalding area, hospital personnel would know what to do. Such training may seem a waste of time and money when it is going on, but the rewards come when there is a disaster. With everyone knowing their job and what to do, they are not bumping into each other and getting in the way. They work in an orderly fashion to help as many people as possible as quickly as they can. Those on relief are called to work and those at work do what they can to aid with the emergenices and take care of other patients in the hospital. The people of Toccoa Falls and Toccoa Bible College suffered a great loss when the waters of the lake roared through. Lives cannot be replaced. The material losses can. The human loss may have been greater if the nursing and medical personnel had not been trained in how to handle a disaster. They worked first with those where there was a sign of hope to save their lives. There was no need of them wasting time on those where it was deter mined there was no hope of saving the patient. Sounds cruel, but it is better to save one life than lose two. We hope the personnel at the Griffin-Spalding County Hospital are never faced with a disaster. It is comforting to know they are ready if one should occur. Quote/Unquote “What are the qualities that make for success? Judgment, industry, health, and the greatest of these is judgment.” — Lord Beaverbrook, British statesman. “You give but little when you give of your possessions. 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